Re: Please remove rules.old

2006-04-17 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 17 April 2006 at 22:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > | There are a few dozen source packages in the archive that contain a file > | called debian/rules.old. In many cases, this was apparently the backup > | copy during a cdbs conversion or something similar that should

Re: Please remove rules.old

2006-04-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 17 April 2006 at 22:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote: | There are a few dozen source packages in the archive that contain a file | called debian/rules.old. In many cases, this was apparently the backup | copy during a cdbs conversion or something similar that should have | been removed. If you a

Re: X11R7 and what this transition means for you

2006-04-17 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 04:49:02PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 06:44:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > 6) Finally, in addition to everything else that's moving out of > > > /usr/X11R6/, > > > packages providing fonts for X should now install to /

Re: About the maintainance of monotone

2006-04-17 Thread Shaun Jackman
Hello Richard, I prepared a non-maintainer upload (NMU) of monotone 0.25, just to see if there was any major issue standing in the way. My changelog follows this mail. The package builds fine, and after some very casual checking, appears to run fine as well. I need to make a couple minor changes:

Re: Is Jose Luis Tallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2006-04-17 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-17 18:36:01 -0600]: > I wonder if anyone has knowledge of the whereabouts of Jose Luis Tallon as far > as his Debian involvement is concerned. His packages have several RC bugs, > have not been updated for while, and some of them have been NMUed

Is Jose Luis Tallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2006-04-17 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
I wonder if anyone has knowledge of the whereabouts of Jose Luis Tallon as far as his Debian involvement is concerned. His packages have several RC bugs, have not been updated for while, and some of them have been NMUed a while ago. Regards, Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

O: estic -- Administration program for ISDN PABX ISTEC

2006-04-17 Thread Torsten Werner
retitle 263048 O: estic -- Administration program for ISDN PABX ISTEC thanks Hello, I am orphaning the package now but I am willing to sponsor uploads for an experienced maintainer (people that already maintain other packages). The hardware controlled by the package is still available from Ebay

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-17 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Thiemo Seufer wrote: > A XFCE-based lightweight desktop also isn't something which happened > overnight. As in "xfce4" package, sure. But all the additional applications are something to be considered very carefully. > It's the usual thing I install as desktop environment, and > I appreciate tha

Please remove rules.old

2006-04-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
There are a few dozen source packages in the archive that contain a file called debian/rules.old. In many cases, this was apparently the backup copy during a cdbs conversion or something similar that should have been removed. If you appear below, please consider fixing this. Guenter Geiger (D

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-17 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Linas Žvirblis wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > By this lie of reasoning the only task that Debian can afford to ship is > > either KDE or Gnome. > > No, not at all. That is not what I was trying to say. KDE and GNOME were > examples of something that did not happen overnight. They proved worthy >

O: scilab -- Matrix-based scientific software package

2006-04-17 Thread Torsten Werner
retitle 271364 O: scilab -- Matrix-based scientific software package thanks Hello, I am finally orphaning this package now but I am willing to sponsor uploads for experienced maintainers (people that already maintain other packages). Please Cc: your replies to me because I do not read debian-dev

Re: libgtk2.0-0: changelog.Debian.gz is not an upstream changelog

2006-04-17 Thread Christian Marillat
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 17 Apr 2006, Christian Marillat spake thusly: > >> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> A copy and paste from the NEW file is certainly useless. > > If the NEW file provides information relevant to an end user > reading

O: gandalf -- C library for image processing and computer vision

2006-04-17 Thread Torsten Werner
retitle 263047 O: gandalf -- C library for image processing and computer vision thanks Hello, I am orphaning the package but I am willing to sponsor uploads for experienced maintainers (people that already maintain other packages). I recommend removing the package if nobody takes over. Please Cc

Re: Bug#349177: diff for 1.6.2-11.1 NMU

2006-04-17 Thread Torsten Werner
retitle 307359 O: multi-gnome-terminal -- Enhanced the GNOME Terminal thanks Hello, I am orphaning the package but I am willing to sponsor uploads for experienced maintainers (people that already maintain other packages). I recommend removing the package if nobody takes over. Please Cc: your re

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-17 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Joey Hess wrote: > By this lie of reasoning the only task that Debian can afford to ship is > either KDE or Gnome. No, not at all. That is not what I was trying to say. KDE and GNOME were examples of something that did not happen overnight. They proved worthy of becoming a task. Would you accept

Re: X11R7 and what this transition means for you

2006-04-17 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 06:44:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > 6) Finally, in addition to everything else that's moving out of /usr/X11R6/, > > packages providing fonts for X should now install to /usr/share/fonts/X11 > > instead of to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. The heira

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-17 Thread Joey Hess
Linas Žvirblis wrote: > Now this "Light Desktop" - something totally untested, composed of > entirely separate pieces of software that might or might not work well > together. Will we ever be able to do half as much testing in Debian, as > it was done for KDE/GNOME? Is it even ethical to use Debian

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Andreas Metzler] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there a way to force a specific library version known in > > ${shlibs:Depends} ? > > Why would you want to do that? Don't know about the original poster, but here's my reason: I want to reduce user confusion. Most of the interesting bits of su

Re: libgtk2.0-0: changelog.Debian.gz is not an upstream changelog

2006-04-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 17 Apr 2006, Christian Marillat spake thusly: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 16 Apr 2006, Christian Marillat uttered the following: >> >>> Here is the relevant policy : >>> >>> , | Changes in the Debian version of the package should be >>> briefly explained in the D

Re: Testing transitions before uploading to unstable

2006-04-17 Thread Decklin Foster
Lars Wirzenius writes: > Er, no. The point is to get things tested and hopefully fixed before > uploading to unstable. Experimental might work, but then packages there > need to be tested with the existing unstable in ways they are not, as > far as I know, currently being tested. I disagree. The

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-17 Thread André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira
2006/4/14, Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 11:46 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > - file-roller > > > > Is there really no other choice without GNOME dependencies? > > there is xarchiver, entered recently in unstable Hmm... Looks like a file-roller fork, but only nee

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-17 Thread André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira
2006/4/14, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am sure this has been discussed many times, but one thing i would > > really like to see in tasksel is: > > > Many many times, yes..:-) > > Joey often raised an argument about novice users likely to be confused > by a KDE/Gnome choice, not kno

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-17 Thread André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira
2006/4/14, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 09:40 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > Il giorno gio, 13/04/2006 alle 11.46 +0200, Eduard Bloch ha scritto: > > [...] > > > > - evince > > > > > > As other pointed out, does basically the same job as xpdf but pulls half > > > of th

Re: Testing transitions before uploading to unstable

2006-04-17 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2006-04-17 kello 08:04 -0300, Otavio Salvador kirjoitti: > Do you think it could be a check before a package to be accepted in > archive? I second that and would like to help with. If it can be made very, very reliable and accurate, not to mention fast, sure. I doubt that will happen very fast

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-17 Thread André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira
2006/4/14, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:20:13PM +0300, Linas Žvirblis wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > Z > > > If so, I would be happy to add this to tasksel, so that the desktop task > > > automatically installs it if it detects a system that is not easily > > > capa

Re: Use clisp shiped with source or from Debian?

2006-04-17 Thread Agustin Martin
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:06:27PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to pack Xindy an index processing system like makeindex. > Xindy's source comes with clisp 2.33.2 and it is compiled at build time. > > I've got it managed to build with the clisp package from Debian. But I > hav

Re: Testing transitions before uploading to unstable

2006-04-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think this is best left to unstable/experimental. Adding yet another >> layer of distributions would just increase the workload managing them. > > I didn't suggest it as a layer in the > stable/testing/unstable/experimental spectrum. Rather, it is me

Re: Bug#354674: What on earth?

2006-04-17 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 07:19:40PM +0200, Pierre HABOUZIT wrote: [...] Perhaps you're right on your comments about X.org 7.0 not being tested enough to avoid break, but perhpas few people cared about installing it when it was in experimental. Perhaps they are right on uploading packages to un

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-17 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Now, if you're arguing that this may not be appropriate for those who > are afraid of a command line or a program that has more than 50 > command line options, that may be the case... but it definetly gets > rid of the bloat present in other image viewe

Re: X11R7 and what this transition means for you

2006-04-17 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 06:18:21PM +0800, Eugene Konev wrote: > This part is broken now. So I ask you please _do not_ yet upload rebuilt > packages if you use dh_installxfonts. Or you should handle your > maintainer scripts by hand. The required (as from X11R6) changes are: > * place your *.scale

Re: X11R7 and what this transition means for you

2006-04-17 Thread Eugene Konev
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:44:20 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: SL> 6) Finally, in addition to everything else that's moving out of /usr/X11R6/, SL> packages providing fonts for X should now install to /usr/share/fonts/X11 SL> instead of to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. The heirarchy is the same as SL

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-17 Thread David Weinehall
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:40:42PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Daniel Stone wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 04:17:28PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > > > > > >>I think that we have a problem when the common library between XFree and > >>/usr/lib are update in /usr/lib. > >>I currently

Re: X11R7 and what this transition means for you

2006-04-17 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 06:44:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > 6) Finally, in addition to everything else that's moving out of /usr/X11R6/, > packages providing fonts for X should now install to /usr/share/fonts/X11 > instead of to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. The heirarchy is the same as > before

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:51:31PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > Outdated...? The term "Ham Radio" seems a _lot_ more common than > "Amateur Radio" -- for instance, Ham Radio seems to be heard quite often > on the news (usually in connection with disasters), whereas, to be > honest I can't say I'

Re: sources.list

2006-04-17 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 05:24:27AM +0430, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > When i wanna a local directory from my HDD,& parallel of it,I use > apt-get from that directory,How i dpo it? man sources.list Kind regards Christoph Haas -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%--1,48

Re: RFA: Everything must go!

2006-04-17 Thread David Moreno Garza
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Shaun Jackman wrote: > > >* Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox > >libnjb - Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox library > >gnomad2 - Manage a Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox > > I have a Creative Zen touch which use these so I can take them. I would > rather work with

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Much, much, much? Where? Some eye-catchers (collage, HTTP client > builtin) but not much for daily use for a desktop system: > > - no picture browser GUI Uh... feh -t .; > - no picture management function mv, rm, rename. Check. [feh -A 'mv %f foo/%n

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-17 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/17/06, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Actually, the word Ham is nowadays being used as the opposite of Spam, > > "good, wanted" E-mail. > > This seems rather a stretch -- it's sometimes used to mean this when > discussing spam-detection algo

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-17 Thread Miles Bader
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, the word Ham is nowadays being used as the opposite of Spam, > "good, wanted" E-mail. This seems rather a stretch -- it's sometimes used to mean this when discussing spam-detection algorithms, but it's hardly something people commonly use otherwis